KOP Gyro

[Mike]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

How would I program a BASIC stamp to read the signal from a KOP gyro. Is the signal analog or digital?

Erm, the way I understand analog/digital is that digital is either true or false (one or zero) and analog is anywhere in a range of numbers. It would be a pretty horrible gyro if it read back 1 or 0

I would google the gyro manufacturer/part number and try to find the datasheet for it. You would need to find the rateout, ground and positive in pins. Then you would have to make sure that your board can provide the amount of power needed. You also need to have an analog-to-digital converter. This converts the voltage returned from the gyro to a number (number size depends on ADC, an 8bit ADC is sufficient.) Then you just read it as you would anything else.